Another installation - part of the Mexican exhibit - will show an ancient Meso-American agricultural technique, chinampa, which is a method of growing crops in rectangular beds. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Over this long dimension, there are four types of water, a 'chinampa' like area, an urban lake, a high andean lacustrine lake, or paramo, and the tilted planes of water on the ends. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A 'chinampa' like system of landfilled plots inside the water body can be used to grow crops and flowers for sale at the local markets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They are all gone now, at any rate, though the name of _chinampa_ is still applied to the gardens along the canal. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Vessels like their own, but with lanterns of stained aguave at the prows, seeking some favorite chinampa, sped by with benisons from the crews. ❋ Unknown (1873)
But the number of chinampa farmers in Tlahuac has dwindled as the borough has grown and urbanized and residents increasingly make their living in more modern professions. ❋ By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN (2012)
In a flat-bottomed boat tied to a willow tree, Crispin Matteos Galicia hauls up sediment in a plastic bucket to fertilize squash seedlings for his chinampa, an island farm built in the shallow waters flowing from the Lake of the Aztec Kings. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Every chinampa forms an oblong square about three hundred feet in length, and eighteen or nineteen feet broad. ❋ William Bingley (1798)
You'll follow this by a visit to the floating gardens of Xochimilco, where you'll board a chinampa (raft type boat) to navigate ancient canals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I've been trying to work out the script where this dopey gringa gone-native is Dennis Hopper, and the man living on this abandoned doll-covered chinampa is Kurtz, which would make the canals of the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco the Nung River, and which would make me -- or you, fellow YouTube viewer -- Charlie Sheen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Aztecs eventualy adapted and learned the chinampa agricultural system, its productivity being an important factor in becoming an empire. ❋ Patgarcia (2008)
They are separated by ditches of three or four yards, and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch and throwing it on the chinampa, by which means the ground is raised generally about a yard, and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered with the finest culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers .... " ❋ Lewis H. Morgan (1849)
